Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ian Stuart
Charting Sep 23, 1962 → Sep 23, 1962 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of Sep 23, 1962
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- October 1961 – September 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- September 1957 – September 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Sep 23, 1962
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 book · 2 share-weeks of Career Power
Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Satan Bug | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1961 in books →Ian Stuart's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1961 to September 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J.D. Salinger598
- 2Irving Stone526
- 3Katherine Anne Porter332
- 4Harper Lee330
- 5Taylor Caldwell204
- 6Herman Wouk200
- 7Mary Renault197
- 8Edward Streeter183
- 9Harold Robbins178
- 10Anne Morrow Lindbergh162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.